
La Trobe Law School
Our courses, at La Trobe’s Melbourne and Bendigo campuses, ensure that graduates are career ready – and ready to make a difference.
Our clinical placements program ensures our graduates are ready for the workplace. Our research outcomes shape the law for the better.
Leading law research
We’re ranked 'above world standard' for our law research.
Australian Research Council, 2019, Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) Outcomes 2018
Practical experience
Put theory into practice with a clinical placement in law or criminology.
Find out about our partnerships
Highly rated for skills development
84.2 per cent of our law undergraduate students were positive about their skills development.
Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching (QILT), 2023, ComparED: Laws & Paralegal Studies (Undergraduate)

Help a student build a new life at La Trobe
After being displaced by war, a scholarship gave Juris Doctor student Philip Al Ayeck the chance to build a new life at La Trobe.
Study with us
- Bachelor of Laws (Honours)
- Bachelor of Criminology
- Bachelor of Laws (Honours)/Bachelor of Psychological Science
- Bachelor of Criminology/Bachelor of Psychological Science
- Bachelor of Laws (Honours)/ Bachelor of Criminology
- Bachelor of Laws (Honours)/Bachelor of Global Studies
- Bachelor of Laws (Honours)/ Bachelor of Commerce
- Juris Doctor
Events
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Anthropocene Reading Group - Infrastructure and Non-human Life: A Wider Ontology
Tuesday 03 October 01:00pm
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Anthropocene Reading Group - Wet Ontologies, Fluid Spaces: Giving Depth to Volume through Oceanic Thinking
Tuesday 17 October 01:00pm
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Anthropocene Reading Group - The Ideal River: How Control of Nature Shaped the International Legal Order
Tuesday 31 October 01:00pm
News
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La Trobe Law School's first graduates return to campus
The inaugural class of the La Trobe Law School recently returned to campus for a morning tea and tour of the Bundoora campus with Dean, Professor Fiona Kelly.
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Researchers awarded combined $2.67m DECRA funding
La Trobe researchers awarded combined $2.67m DECRA funding
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Law School's mooting success
The secret to the success of the La Trobe Law School’s mooting program can be attributed to the partnership between the School, the Law Students’ Association and alumni